Aaron Lamb is the Producing Artistic Director of Harlequin Productions in Olympia, Washington, where he has directed over thirty productions. His work centers on a core conviction: art fundamentally requires both artist and observer — it's the conversation that matters, not any single voice.

Recent directing highlights include Cabaret (2024 Seattle Gregory Award for Best Direction), Sweeney Todd (a collaboration with conductor Alexandra Arrieche and the Olympia Symphony Orchestra), Is This a Room (first regional production of Tina Satter's groundbreaking play), Man of La Mancha (with Monique Holt; actor-musician staging), A Doll's House (translated, adapted, and directed), Hedda Gabler (adapted and directed), and This Flat Earth (West Coast Premiere). His work — whether verbatim documentary, Ibsen, or Sondheim — shares a commitment to complexity over polemic, an insistence that provocation requires participation, and a refusal to inherit conventions uncritically.

Aaron came to directing through a career as an actor, working regionally at Village Theatre, Taproot Theatre, Book-It Repertory Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Playhouse on the Square, Oregon Cabaret Theatre, and Cherry Lane Theatre, among others. His performance work earned a Kennedy Center ACTF Award for Best of Festival, the Memphis Critics Ostrander Award, a Seattle Times Spotlight Award, a Seattle Critics Footlight Award, and an OC Weekly Award.

He is also a professional pianist and has music directed extensively — a background that shapes his collaborative vocabulary with composers, conductors, and musical theatre artists.

MFA, Acting, California State University Fullerton.
BA, Humanities (Music, Drama, English), Washington State University.
Professional development: Cornell Executive Education (in progress).
Additional studies: Stella Adler Conservatory (NYC), American Musical and Dramatic Academy (NYC).